"I heaved at it once and have never gotten over my scare." "Well, you do seem uncommon nervous," replied Lassiter, much amused.
"Now, as for me, why I always had the funniest notion to roll stones! When I was a kid I did it, an' the bigger I got the bigger stones I'd roll.

Ain't that funny?
Honest--even now I often get off my hoss just to tumble a big stone over a precipice, en' watch it drop, en' listen to it bang an' boom.

I've started some slides in my time, an' don't you forget it.

I never seen a rock I wanted to roll as bad as this one! Wouldn't there jest be roarin', crashin' hell down that trail ?" "You'd close the outlet forever!" exclaimed Venters.

"Well, good-by, Lassiter.